WebSlices

If you have browsed over to your Windows Live homepage using the latest version of Internet Explorer 8, you may have noticed a new, shiny green button appear on your toolbar just to the right of the “home” icon. Wonder what that is? It’s a new Web Slice designed for Windows Live. Click the button…

Since the debut of IE8, we’ve seen a lot of clever implementations of the new Web Slices, Accelerators, and Search Providers features, most of which can be found here on the IEAddons site. However, I thought it was interesting to see how some companies have started to use IE8 for their own purposes…

There’s a new site called Liveslices.com where those of you running the IE 8 Release Candidate can browse through and install Webslices from an online gallery. Webslices are a new way to keep up with frequently updated webpages using the new version of IE. When you subscribe to a Webslice (look for…

Guess who just joined the early adopters of Internet Explorer 8's new WebSlices feature? None other than the open-source, free encyclopedia site, Wikipedia. Thanks to Wikipedia user Soum Yasch and others, Wiki templates have been built to support the new IE8 WebSlices. You can see them in action on…

I just saw a post this morning about Sean Lyndersay's new Sidebar gadget called the "WebSlice Viewer Gadget." This brilliant little creation brings IE8's WebSlices (bits of web content that you can access from the new IE8 Favorites Bar) right to your desktop via a simple Vista Sidebar…

In this video, Me.dium discusses how they are using the new features of Internet Explorer 8 to make the web a more social experience. David Mandell from Me.dium shows off the WebSlices and the Activities that Me.dium created to integrate their services into the new IE8 and leverage the new rich user…